Democracy in India
- New Delhi Oxford University Press 2007
- xxvi, 571p.
- Themes in politics Oxford india paperbacks .
Includes index
Cover Democracy in India Niraja Gopal Jayal Themes in Politics Table of Contents List of Tables; List of Figures; List of Contributors; Introduction (Niraja Gopal Jayal): I INDIAN DEMOCRACY PREFIGURED 1:Democracy under the Raj: Elections and Separate Representation in British India (James Chiriyankandath); 2:The Rhetoric of Democracy and Development in Late Colonial India (David Washbrook); II DEMOCRACY AND THE STATE 3:The Crisis of the Moderate State and the Decline of Democracy (Rajni Kothari); 4:Political Change in a Democratic Developing Country (Atul Kohli); 5:Demand Polity and command Polity (Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph); 6:The State and Democracy in India or What happened to Welfare, Secularism, and Development (Niraja Gopal Jayal; III DEMOCRACY AND CIVIL SOCIETY 7:The Culture of representative Democracy (Sudipta Kaviraj); 8:Power and Knowledge in Development Discourse: New Social Movements and the State in India (Pramod Parajuli); 9:The Democratic Rite: Celebration and Participation in the Indian Elections (Walter Hauser and Wendy Singer); 10:Hunger and Public Action; (Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen); 11:The Puzzle of Indian Democracy: A Consociational Interpretation (Arend Lijphart); IV DEMOCRACY AND DEVELOPMENT 12:Economic Development and Political Democracy: Interaction and Economies and Politics in Independent India (Deepak Nayyar); 13:The Political Economy of Reform in India (Pranab Bardhan); V DEMOCRACY, LOCALITY, AND REGION 14:Ballot Box and Local Power: Elections in an Indian Village (Subrata K. Mitra); 15:Democracy and Decentralization in Karnataka (India) (Richard C. Crook and James Manor) ; VI THE FUTURE OF INDIAN DEMOCRACY 16:The Anti-caste Movement and the Discourse of Power (Gail Omvedt); 17:Hindu Nationalism and Democracy (Christophe Jaffrelot); Annotated Bibliography: Name Index; Subject Index.